A team of Japanese researchers has decoded the mechanism behind what accelerates ageing in smokers.
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Assistant professor Kaori Nakanishi and professor Keiko Takihara from Osaka University found that the smoking habit affected the ageing-related molecule in blood serum.
In addition, they elucidated that smoking causes a rise in blood serum concentration of fibroblast growth factor (FGF)-21.
The rise in FGF-21 in smokers can trigger metabolic disorders leading to ageing.
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“We found that smoking habits change the blood serum concentration of ageing-related molecules,” they noted.
The results provide new knowledge about ageing-related diseases caused by smoking and prevention of smoking-related accelerated ageing.
This research was reported in Nature's Scientific Reports journal.IANS
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